Gary Douglas Beer (born 10 October 1941), was a New Zealand cricketer who played 19 first-class matches for the Central Districts and

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in the 1960s.Gary Beer

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. Retrieved 2022-01-08. Beer was born at

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in New Zealand, educated at Christchurch West High SchoolMcCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 17. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) and played club cricket for

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Cricket Club in the city. He was described in 1961, before his first-class debut, as "one of the most promising cricketers in Canterbury" and as an "aggressive opening bat, a fine fielder with a good arm, and a useful, medium-pace bowler".People in the play
''Press'', 16 September 1961, p. 9. Retrieved 2022-01-08. He played under-20 and under-23 cricket for

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in 1961/62 and under-23 cricket for Central Districts the following season, during which he made his first-class debut in March 1963, playing for a New Zealand under-23 side against Northern Districts. He went on to make his

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debut for Central Districts in December of the same year.Gary Beer
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-01-08. He played six matches for Central Districts over the following two seasons, his final first-class appearance for the side coming against the touring Pakistanis in February 1965. The following season, Beer moved to play for Otago. He played in 12 senior matches for the side, his final first-class appearance coming in January 1968 in a Plunket Shield match against Central Districts. He played in a non-first-class match for the side against the touring Australians in February 1967. In his 19 first-class matches he scored a total of 572 runs with a highest score of 57―his only half-century in first-class cricket.Gary Beer

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online. Retrieved 2022-01-08. Beer played Hawke Cup cricket for Hawke's Bay in 1963/64 and 1964/65 and for

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in 1970/71 and 1971/72.

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* 1941 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Central Districts cricketers Otago cricketers 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1940s-stub